March 1, 2007 at 6:33 pm
· Filed under Art, New Work, Appropriation, Joe Milutis, Travel, Cold, Geography, Narrative
New work made for New Climates
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Line of 32 by Joe Milutis presents the search for cold weather as a meandering, emotive narrative. Combining found footage from the Web, still images and otherworldly audio-visual recordings of Lake Michigan, the video creates a sense of longing for the seasonal temperature shifts of yesteryear. Line of 32 explores the climate change crisis at a personal level, presenting an alternative, or perhaps complementary, perspective from the cold, hard, and anonymous numerical data of climatology. Milutis reminds us that our experience of global changes in weather will be constructed by local, individual observations; no matter how universal a concern, climate change will always hit close to home.
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[…] joe milutis is a favorite at location one. he’s done a couple of open house wednesday talks on themes that range from the history of ether to virtual literature. we are big fans of his high-energy, high-concept presentations and his extremely broad areas of interest. now he has a new piece up for an online project called “new climates” which is a collection of new and existing artworks responding to the relationship between art, global climate change and networked culture. joe’s piece is called line of 32 and it presents the search for cold weather as a meandering, emotive narrative. Combining found footage from the Web, still images and otherworldly audio-visual recordings of Lake Michigan, the video creates a sense of longing for the seasonal temperature shifts of yesteryear. […]
While cleaning the apartment today, the dustpan turned up a fortune cookie slip that I must have been saving for possibly working into this video. Considering a potentially winterless future, it is just about the cruelest fortune ever: “When winter comes heaven will rain success on you.” But maybe their loophole is that they use the word “rain” and not “snow.” Or that winter only has ever meant snow-cold and ice-cold in specific places on the planet. Nevertheless, here are your lucky numbers: 8 8 0 and the lotto six: 40 28 35 46 10 36.
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